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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
Huh, I find Clear Sans to be far more readable than the vast majority of fonts that others use. I also rather like the Liberation fonts - maybe because I've been a Red Hat user since 98 so I was exposed to the Liberation fonts very early.
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Well, our Wolfie is rather notoriously opinionated. :-)
He's right, however, in discouraging the embedding of an unchangeable body font. I don't know or recall where you intended to publish, but some vendors (Amazon and iBooks) are pretty inflexible about that being a patent no-no.
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Liberation Mono has a dotted 0 which many monospace fonts lack, and Liberation Mono also has all four standard variants which the majority of monospace fonts lack.
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Yes, I'm fond of easy-to-distinguish zeroes and ohs, myself.
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Rather interesting though that you consider Intel Clear Sans to be ugly, it is the most readable screen font I personally have encountered. At least for me. Lucida Sans is also very readable to me and is another I love, but it isn't free.
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As a personal comment--unrelated, utterly, to your book or font choices, I'd rather stab my eyes out than ever deal with another Lucida font, but that is largely driven by my hatred of Lucida Calligraphy and Lucida Handwriting, both of which I see over and over and over and
over and, well...you get the drift. For me, a Lucida font is like seeing Comic Sans, Chalkboard or Papyrus.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
One of the other issues is that a sans-serif font (no matter which font) is not a good choice for the main font. The main font should be a serif font. New Readers and a lot of current software allow the user to choose what font to use and if you embed a main font, some software cannot override it. So please, leave the choice of font up to the person reading.
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He does have a point here, although, NO DOUBT, a bunch of sans defenders will leap in here, asserting that "myriad studies have shown" that a sans font is "better" than serif, but...my own gut still leans toward serifs for readability, generally. I find sans fonts particularly difficult in eInks, but, I freely admit, THAT could well and truly just be me.
Hitch